ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you:

My editors Molly at Scribe, and Hazel and Jay at Book*hug Press.

Leenastiina at Rights & Brands agency.

And Carlos F. Grigsby: thank you for helping me with the translation and for showing me the rigours of short fiction.

The idea of the threshold, on page 73, is from Peter Handke’s Slow Homecoming.